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Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
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Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
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John and Brand, Josh Falsey
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
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Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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W. B. Yeats
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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Sextus Propertius, Elegies
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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William Shakespeare
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
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Walter Bagehot
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Demosthenes
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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John Simon
In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...
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